Improvement in skirt elevators and adjusters



PHOEBE e. BAKER.

SKIRT-ELEVATOR AND ADJUSTER.

* Patented Jan. 11, 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrroa.

PHOEBEG. BAKER, OF SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT ELEVATORS AND ADJUSTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,072, dated January11, 1876 application filed October 25, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHOEBE G. BAKER, of

' South Yarmouth, in the county of Barnstable and State ofMassachusetts, have invented an Improved Dress-Skirt Elevator andAdjuster, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to an elevator and adjuster for skirts, adaptedto elevate and hold back the fullness of the skirt; and the inventionconsists of an elevator composed of separate strips, as hereinafterdescribed, the

fastened to or near the skirt-band, each near the second seam from thefront, right, and left. Rings h h are fastened to the second sea-m,right and left from the front seam each side, at distances down on theskirt from the bandcorresponding with the positions of the hooks d onthe pieces a, b. Other rings i are fastened to the skirt about sixteeninches, more or less, down from the band, then rings j, about halfaninch lower down, and then rings is yet a little lower, and a ring, I, isplaced, substantially in line with the back center of the skirt. Thecord m, for lifting the skirt 02, passes through a hole, 0, in the band,then through the rings h, and through rings ij k, as shown at one side,then through rings 1 e 6, back through ring Z, and through rings kj i,and under rings h on the other side, and out through hole 0, the cord,rings, and pieces a I) being on the inside of the skirt. The hooks c dare engaged with the rings g h, thereby supporting the pieces a b inplace, and by pullingon the ends of the cord m the skirt vator can beapplied to a skirt open at back or side.

By this device a skirt with long train may be made to hang gracefullywhen elevated,

and answer all the purposes of a walkingdress, and look well as to theset of the skirt.

Hooks might be placed on the skirt, and eyes on the pieces at, or for apermanent arrangement the pieces a I) might be sewed to the inside ofthe skirt.

I claiml. The skirt elevator and adjuster composed of pieces a b,connectionsf, rings and cord, combined and arranged to gather andelevate a skirt, substantially as described.

2. The pieces a b, in combination with hooks, rings, and connections f,arranged substantially as described;

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHOEBE G. BAKER.

Witnesses:

SETH KELLEY, F. LARKIN.

